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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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This is my first time driving down. We’re currently in the queue for the Portsmouth Caen ferry. We’ll be driving to Alpe d’Huez tomorrow for three days skiing, before heading back Monday for work on Tuesday. Just a sneaky way to get some extra skiing in
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Pen Eira, enjoy - Mrs B and I used to do a cheeky Easter ski and it is a great end of season extra ski
Today will really be about pretending to work while packing the car for an early start 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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One sleep to go!! Or as I just said to my SIL half a sleep for them as they're leaving home at 0430 tomorrow.
Final day off at home for me today and I have no plans. Cases are packed. Just toiletries and electronics to chuck in the rucksacks tomorrow morning.
Safe travels, @Pen Eira.
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@Owlette, a lie in then, we're off 3:30am
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| Boris wrote: |
| @Owlette, a lie in then, we're off 3:30am |
Looking back at previous posts, you're booked on the same Shuttle as the Duck family!
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@Owlette, I will look out for them
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Just heading down to the tunnel from the midlands now, first time driving the M25 is on Easter Thursday, good luck everybody!
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@Lowrom, we used to drive down after work on Maundy Thursday, drive overnight and have 9 days skiing for only 3 days off work. We were closed from good friday to the wednesday.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@johnE, noice, I'm too old for that shizzle these days, we doing it in a leisurely 3 days.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Smooth drive down to Dover for the DFDS ferry. At French border discovered I had picked up my wife's expired passport. Luckily she is Dutch so as an EU passport holder she was allowed through anyway. Bollocking for me.
Luckily our son is flying out tonight so he's bringing her new passport but he can't find his Dutch one so will have to use British and brave the queue at GVA.
What else can go wrong?!
Now on board at Dover waiting to leave. Then potter down to Geneva and pick him up from the airport. ETA Chatel 0100 Friday. Home on Monday.
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@DJL, lucky...expired passports far away from current ones and everyone responsible for picking up their own in our house.
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You know it makes sense.
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@holidayloverxx, they were well separated. Turned out the new one was in our flat in London. Luckily our son is working from there before flying out.
Lesson learnt though.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I had picked up my wife's expired passport.
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What an extraordinarily trusting wife you have. No way, in almost 50 years of marriage would I have assumed my OH would remember. Why do people keep expired passports?
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Origen, Why not? I've got all of ours - kept elsewhere however. No particular point of course, although nowadays it is fun to look at stamps in them
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Origen, not least because one of the old ones contains "indefinite right to remain" which is more beneficial than "Settled status"
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Boris,
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No particular point of course, although nowadays it is fun to look at stamps in them
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+1
i still have one from the mid 90's when i travelled across the middle east and on a trans Africa organised (economic) expedition, on a converted lorry, had loads of stamps from criss-crossing borders, especially at vic falls where you frequently cross from Zimbabwe to Zambia and gain several stamps.
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Now at Reims Sud. Queue for fuel at Total Energies. Traffic very light.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Well car is largely packed, filled up earlier, checked oil, tyres and screen wash.
Basically ready to go
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Are the queues for the Eurotunnel likely to be very long tomorrow (we are booked on the 06:24) ?
When we were on the same train a month ago it was almost deserted at that time but that was just a random Friday not a public (and school ) holiday. It's a long time since I took the tunnel on Good Friday so I've forgotten what a busy day looks like.
Anyone else driving to Austria tomorrow or is everyone heading to France ? It always seems like 90% of the cars on the A26 keep on heading down to the French Alps when you get to Reims and very few cars are taking the A4 to cross over into Germany.
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@JohnS4, I’m hoping it won’t be! Generally at that time it is ok, we’ve travelled at Feb half term etc, and while busy it seems to belated in day it gets manic.
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Driving down through the U.K. leg of our journey today, I came across multiple no fuel signs and prices of £1.81.9 ppl for E10 unleaded.
If I make it to the Alps I’ll be happy, getting home may be interesting
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@Jonny996,
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Driving down through the U.K. leg of our journey today, I came across multiple no fuel signs and prices of £1.81.9 ppl for E10 unleaded.
If I make it to the Alps I’ll be happy, getting home may be interesting
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no issues around my way the last couple of days, filled up yesterday at a deserted fuel station, at £149.9 PL E10, no change in prices or queues today.
i wonder how much the media is salivating at the thought of massive disruption to fuel, every time i see a picture or comment online about queues, it is always an image of a Costco somewhere, but seeing as they are generally 10pPL cheaper than anywhere else at anytime, there are always queues at any Costco fuel station when i go to one.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Booked last minute today, travelling tomorrow to Tignes via the tunnel.
Leaving Portsmouth around 5am hoping for a 8am train. First time on Flexiplus as it was the only option left.
Overnight stay just South of Dijon to make an easy journey up the hill the next day.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Be careful!!
At two service stations on the drive through France today there was no diesel.
Petrol was OK but wow...expensive compared to the UK!
And don't think you'll easily find it off the motorway...driving over the Jura (Bescanson, Pontarlier, Vallorbe) we passed multiple garages with no fuel at all.
Their signs display a "price" of 99.99 in that case
Those.that had any had petrol.
So don't run your fuel right down before filling up!
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Thanks for the thoughts. We’re in Oz en Oisans now, after 870 kms and about 11 hours of driving. That’s a couple of stops for breakfast, lunch and changing drivers plus a nasty hold up near Auxerre where we missed google telling us to turn off. There was a brief panic that we hadn’t registered for the free flow autoroute from Caen to Paris. But that’s paid now. All in all I think it went pretty well.
We were grateful for the Total Energie tip - cheaper petrol was painlessly obtained. Let’s hope for the same on the way back.
As the food we had today was disappointing does anyone have tips for ok service station food? We’d prefer to avoid McDonalds etc, but would like something more interesting than a sandwich.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Switzerland appears to have all the fuels at all the stations
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Pen Eira, there are usually some with a table service restaurant with local specialities, but we now tend to head of the autoroute. Nuits-St-Georges is close to an exit, just 5 minutes gets us to a nice village with nice food.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Heading from Teesside to Les Arcs next weekend, I know if I drive carefully I can get all the way to LA on one tank of diesel, but I'll fill up at Dover & keep topped up through France 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Right just about to head off, will be keeping an eye on tank and looking to fill when about half empty I think (diesel)
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Arrived at tunnel - queue back few hundred meters from check in, seems to be moving steadily.
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@Boris, safe travels
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About to get our first train of the day, safe travels all! 
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| Boris wrote: |
| Arrived at tunnel - queue back few hundred meters from check in, seems to be moving steadily. |
We arrived at 05.50 and waited 3 hours for check in and passports, ironically after the French passport we drove straight onto a train
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| tangowaggon wrote: |
| Heading from Teesside to Les Arcs next weekend, I know if I drive carefully I can get all the way to LA on one tank of diesel, but I'll fill up at Dover & keep topped up through France |
can you pick me up at the. Black Swan ( now a caravan site) on the. A19?
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@tangowaggon, I wouldn't mind, but she might
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